The six million dollar question of “how much will it cost?” causes many heads to fall into open palms because we’re using the wrong pricing and budgeting models. Your custom website or app project will be unique from all others. It will share many similarities with other software projects, in much the same way that […]

You just created a new user account on your ubuntu droplet on Digital Ocean using the command: and logged in the new user account via SSH and it just doesn’t look quite right. You are greeted with a command prompt like this: not the typical Attempts to use expected list alias ll fails so you […]

Loads of people use the Internet to carry out everyday tasks without really understanding how it’s linked together or how it works and that’s fine as a passive consumer but when you start out as an active contributor with a website then it helps to understand a little bit more about how it all hangs […]

Shellshock or the Bash bug has hit the news as the latest bug affecting web servers the world over. What is it, how could it affect you and what can you do about it? The Shellshock or Bash bug affects all Unix and Unix style operating systems, for example most flavours of Linux and Mac […]

Imagine for a moment that you’re shopping in the high street and you walk into a store looking for a particular widget but you can’t find it on the shelves, so you ask an assistant for help. Consider these two possible responses: Response one The assistant scratches his head a little and looks a bit […]

A little dev tip for any of our Front End developer friends The problem Recently I was developing an interactive site for a client and it was intended to be a single page solution more like an app than a site, in that when a user clicked on a menu item the new content would […]

We all know about web addresses right? But what do we know about domain names? This is the first in a series of under the hood articles for those who’d like a more in depth knowledge and understanding of how the Internet works on a more technical level. This article seeks to demystify the world […]

In such a vast industry as Internet marketing and web development it’s not surprising that the quality and credibility of practitioners ranges from charlatans to the saints. The industry has no regulations nor governing body and very little legislation – on one hand this can be a good thing because it embodies the free spirit […]

Today is my daughter Lilli’s first day in primary school, so there’s been a lot of excitement in our house over the past few days. It’s a milestone event in anyone’s life – we all remember our first day at school – a day that’s loaded with emotion and sentiment. Kids are excited and sometimes […]

If you were to drive your car wearing really dark glasses and earplugs with no dashboard instruments, how would that feel? Apart from the jokers in the pack who might suggest “like a BMW driver”, when I’ve asked this question before the general consensus is “out of control”. By removing or dramatically reducing the feedback […]